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[Editor's note: For some reason I found this article in my Spam folder - that's why it is insanely late.]

This weekend was a blur of activity for me, I went to Schaumburg, Illinois Friday night (one of the few times I’ve skipped FNM). I took a friend for a belated birthday present to go see Medieval Times. I sat in the section where I got to cheer for the Green Knight (sometimes it is more fun to cheer for the bad guy). Saturday I was looking forward to the prerelease events with Worldwake as it had been a long cold bleak January here in central Illinois and at least this was something to look forward to.

I received my packs (3 Zendikar and 3 Worldwake) and began to sort them out. In the first pack saw one of my favorite uncommons, Vampire Nighthawk

) to put it in the graveyard only to return it to the top of my deck to kill a creature with pro red. One of the cards I really hated playing against (and I only had to play against it in game 1, which I lost) was Strength of the Tajuru

: excellent in the early game if you have an extra land in your hand but even in the late game if you don’t have an extra land the card draw is a bonus in green where it has usually been a province of blue to draw extra cards

The Zendikons: 1 for each color that makes your land not only a creature but if the creature goes to your graveyard you can at least get the land back, hopefully taking out one of their creatures on the way